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Chris Crandall

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I enjoy ignorant comments as much as the rest of you, but the easy claim of his illegality just ain't correct. He had approval to stay in the country from ICE, and they were negotiating his status.

You may not realize this, but there aren't two simple states of documentation--legal and illegal. There are many gray areas, and Mr. Jamal was in one of those gray areas. Furthermore, he was being very cooperative with ICE, checking in regularly, while paying taxes, raising his family of US citizens, providing college-level chemistry instruction at a reasonable rate of pay. His work was in demand, and he was a law-abiding 30-year resident of the USA. He was singled out without due process--and due process is the bedrock of democratic liberty.

Maybe you think he should be deported, maybe not. But it's plain ignorance to claim that "he had nobody to blame but himself," or that the 94,000 people who signed a petition should also be deported, or that he didn't do all those things (applications, visas) to keep his stay documented, or that he didn't pay his legal share of taxes [without being able to seek Social Security, even though he paid into it], or that the "companies" he worked for need to be investigated . . . well it's just plain ignorant.

Keep that in mind when we think about who deserves to be in the USA. We keep it open for ignorant people. Why not people who teach college, pay taxes, raise citizens, and have a 30-year clean record?

Not so fast, Clark. The development of schizophrenia after marijuana use is almost certainly due to pre-existing neurological states--being pre-schizophrenic makes marijuana appealing, and not the reverse.

The same is true of anxiety and depression evidence you cite.

The causal claim you make, Clark, is based on a correlation--it doesn't support your conclusion.

This article is entirely incorrect about Fraser Hall. It's FRAY-zerr, not FRAY-zhur. There is a distinct lack of a "z" or an "i". Don't tell Doug Fraser of the UAW or the people who teach at Simon Fraser University or live near the banks of the Fraser River that there is a "z" sound in the name. There isn't.